miércoles, 23 de marzo de 2016

Reflection of my Class Journal



The teacher told us to write 5 times in a week in a free line notebook. She told us to write in a free line notebook because we needed to feel free and without any restrictions when were writing in the journal. The only rules we had were: that we don’t get logical, that we need to write whatever comes to our mind, and that we need to keep writing without worrying about the spelling and grammar. We cannot cross out, we need to just be free and write everything you want without caring about the reader because no one will read it; not even the teacher.  With this project I learned to be fluent and learned more vocabulary. Also this project helped me a lot to express myself without worrying that someone will read it and without trying to be perfect. Those papers were everything I had on my mind. Also it helped me to organize my feelings and thoughts. It helped me to know more about me and about the mess I used to have on my mind. But I wasn’t always writing about the situations I had or the plans I got on my mind, sometimes I wrote none sense stuff; it was just expressions in a paper.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                In the other hand we also did a life compass. We needed to do 3 life compasses in our journal. It consist in a circle with four lines similar to a north, south, east, west compass, but instead of the locations we had on it: spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical. We had to write next to each word in a scale of 0 to 3 how we were feeling. For example if I was very sad or angry I was supposed to write 0, and if I was happy I was supposed to write 3. Like the journal entries this life compasses helped me organized my feelings and know how exactly I was felling at that moment. Also it helped me know how I’m supposed to work with my feelings letting me know which one was lower.

I got 40 journal entries and 30 life compasses also my mental status were in total 73, my emotional status were in total 55, my spiritual status were in total 54, and my physical status were in total 55. I got 31% in mental and 23% in the other ones. Like you can see I have a balance between my emotional, spiritual and physical status, but when it comes to mental you can see that when I grab the pen to write in my notebook I have a lot of thoughts and they are very constant. But that’s not always like that, sometimes I was in blank and like I said I wrote a lot of none sense stuff because of that. Also I did charts of my feelings and I can see that my emotional, spiritual and physical relate a little, especially the emotional and the spiritual. I can see that the days I was very sad I wasn’t very spiritual and sometimes it was reflected in my body, in my physical status. The lower number in physical also reflects that I’m almost always in pain because of my back, and the lower numbers in my emotional and spiritual status at the final days reflects the sadness I have been passing through; sadness that my journal helped me relieved.

                     

jueves, 17 de marzo de 2016

Reflection of “The Maternal Instinct” by V.S. Naipaul

This story “The Maternal Instinct” by V.S. Naipaul is about a prostitute woman named Laura that has eight children. Her house was full of violence and her children were from 7 different fathers except for the last 2 children that were from Nathaniel, the only man that stayed with her and gave her 2 children. Nathaniel stayed with her even if she used to beat him; he always used to say that he was the one who beat her.

Even if Laura wasn’t a good example for her children, she wanted that none of them be like her. That’s why she wanted that all of her children get educated. Laura used to say: “It have nothing like education in the world. I don’t want my children to grow like me.” But we can see that her older daughter named Lorna got pregnant even if she was educated. “The eldest daughter, Lorna, came home from her typing lessons late one night and said, ‘Ma, I going to make a baby.’ I heard the shriek that Laura gave. And for the first time I heard Laura crying. It wasn’t ordinary crying. She seemed to be crying all the cry she had saved up since she was born”.

This is an example of how a parent should raise a child, because if you want your child to be a good person in the future you should not settle by telling them to be a good person. You as a parent have to be an example for them. You should show them how to live and be good people. Lorna must have showed to her children how to go forward with a decent job and treated her children better, with love, and only caring for them and not being behind males. We can see the sad end that the story become for Laura, she was so ashamed of what her daughter did that she didn’t show up on the street because she knows it was because of her bad parenting. She was even relieved when the police told her that her daughter Lorna died drowned, she said: “It good. It good. It better that way.” Maybe she was relieved because her daughter’s life may have ended worst like her mother’s life. Also we can infer that Lorna committed suicide because of her mother’s reaction to the news of having a baby. One character said: “Is what they always do, swim out and out until they tired and can’t swim no more.” Maybe the daughter thought that her mother will be proud if she become like her, like the example her mother gave her. This is a disaster that occurred because of the mother bad behavior.

  

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6rDDD_lCo

miércoles, 16 de marzo de 2016

Reflection of "George and the Pink House" by V.S. Naipaul

"George and the Pink House" by V.S. Naipaul is a sad story about a family that little by little decomposes because the one that should be guiding the family is not a good person. The author describes this family of a mean man named George. He talks about the fear that George and his pink house gave him. George is a man that beat his family, kills his wife, and even found a husband to his daughter so he cannot have all the charge of his daughter after killing his wife. George at the end dies very lonely.

            This is a sad story that nowadays still happens; I have seen similar kinds of stories. Like the author of this story said: “I couldn’t understand how anybody in the world would want to live with George”. It’s hard to believe that we can see this happening and that we can see people that live with bad persons like George. I have known wives that stay with their abusive husbands for many inexcusable reasons. They stay with their husband because: they want their children grow up with a father, because they had made a promise in matrimony to never leave their husbands, they don’t want anybody to talk bad about them, they want to protect their husbands dignity by not telling anyone that he is a bad man, or that their husband threat them so they can’t speak what’s happening in their house. These kinds of women are always behind their husband, they don’t do anything without them and they don’t see like a proper person like the author said about George’s wife: “George’s wife was never a proper person. I always thought of her just as George’s wife, and that was all.” These women should leave these excuses apart and think about how this situation can conclude, this situation can conclude in a bad outcome like George’s family had. George’s wife inaction resulted in her own death.             

We can also see that this situation can be painful to everybody in the family. I can infer that George’s sons, in addition of suffering abuse from their father and seeing their mother suffer, they were in pain too because of the death of their mother. Also we can see that the inaction of the mother against the abuse also resulted that when she wasn’t alive, George found a husband for his daughter Dolly. Even Dolly didn’t claim for help she was always giggling and obeying her father. Dolly was giggling but not because she was happy; we can see this in this text: “The women and the Americans made Dolly and Razor kiss and kiss, and they cheered. Dolly giggled. Hat said, ‘She ain’t giggling, you know. She crying really."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z_zWIVRIWk